Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Older people are missing out on critical services because they do not use the internet, a report says. Just 28% of people over the age of 65 have home internet access, compared to a UK average of 57% of households.…
Slow Design is a UK-based “cultural space to stimulate debate around the concept of ‘slow design’. It is conceived as an ongoing dialogue, an open-ended project”. Slow Design “links with existing design clusters that perceive ‘design’ and ‘slowness’ as a…
Nicolas Nova writes in his blog Pasta and Vinegar about the research structure Museolab [website in French], within Lyon’s future museum Musée des Confluences (architecture by Coop Himmelblau), that “aims at inventing, experimenting and validating technologies and services that would improve…
Susana Schwartz describes in a long article in Billing World & OSS Today how tomorrow’s super-smart phones will enable contactless cash payment. Billing World & OSS Today is a magazine covering and analysing the telecommunications Business and Operational Support Systems…
Reflecting the development in its core business since foundation thirteen years ago, the European Institute for Design and Disability, EIDD made the major decision to change its name to “EIDD – Design for All Europe“, with the abbreviations “EIDD” and…
The latest newsletter of the Indian Design for All Institute is devoted to anthropology and design. It features the articles “Cultural dimensions and global user-interface development” by Aaron Marcus, and “Sampling in design research: toward ethnographic segments” by Ken C.…
An interesting article from Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab: “When a doctor tells you your blood pressure is too high, you may modify your lifestyle to compensate: less salt, more exercise, fewer freedom fries. In a sense, the doctor has…
“Why not transfer money and efforts from the end (advertising) to the start (R&D) of a product life cycle”, asks David Carlson, the well-known Swedish design entrepreneur, in the June 2006 issue of the David Report, a new bimonthly newsletter…
Introducing the winners of the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs), Bruce Nussbaum writes in Business Week: “Managers everywhere are turning to rapid ethnography, usability, special materials, and aesthetics—the tools of design—to innovate.” He then goes on to discuss the…
Asian countries lead the world in creating digital homes, with Taiwan and Korea at the forefront, says a study. The research, carried out by US market research firm Parks Associates, looked at digital living trends in 13 markets in Asia,…
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) just launched the official website and event registration for the 2006 World Usability Day, a global series of events on November 14, 2006 to promote awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design.…
The International Herald Tribune reports on how in Japan mobile phones can provide highly-site specific internet services: “If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today, you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, a restaurant or a…
WorldChanging, the online publication covering tools, models, and ideas for building a better future, has an interesting article on branding experience instead of stuff: “One of the fundamental insights that’s helping us re-imagine our lives in a brighter, greener cast…
The 34 EU member states on Wednesday signed up for the “Internet for all” action plan, designed to ensure that the most Web-disadvantaged groups can get online. The EC has now pledged to increase broadband coverage across the continent to…
The blog of SmartLab, an interesting new lab in Torino devoted to social media, went live yesterday. SmartLab is the acronym of the Social Media Application Research & Tagging Laboratory established in March 2006 by CSP and the IT Department…
The Sino European Systems Usability Network (SESUN) is an EU funded project developing active and sustainable links between the Chinese and European IT communities, as well as promoting HCI / usability within China and facilitating the design of a new…